B-LVgbib Mechelen 5

Fols. 1-43 and 53-80: Rituale monasticum, 12th century. Fols. 44-52: liturgy of the dead, 14th century. It must have belonged to St. Truiden.

On some places staffless Low Countries neumes (fol. 10r, 44r).

Many rubric point towards a male convent supervised by an abbot (fol. 60v: de sepeliendo abbate; 15r: Ad benedicendum monachum, fol.59v: hoc a domino abbate hugone constitutus est.

Fol. 28v: litany; the saints point towards the diocese of Luik; Among the confessors Trudo is the first and his name is a bit more decorated than the rest. In the litanies on fol. 61v and 63v his name is in red.

Fol. 53: rubric for the liturgy of the dead (with the rubric Infantes cum magistro cantant seorsum In paradysum).

Many rubrics for funerals, processions, etc.

In the front and back are fragments containing a sequentia for Trudo and a description of the Palm Sunday procession.

Literature

C. De Clercq, pp. 29-30.

It is not mentioned in Handschriften uit de Abdij van Sint-Truiden.


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